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...orthodox dogma that Barth has tried to set aright-much to the dismay of other theologians in the Reformed Church -is the best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last Judgment and those who will suffer the eternal pangs of Hell. Barth says that this belief does not pay sufficient heed to the fact that Christ's death was intended for all men: Man's ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery, but Barth believes that Christ, the loving Judge...
...Tall Crop. Even the gloomiest builders concede some hopeful signs. Contract awards for private housing were 29% above 1961 levels in January and February. The FHA recently reduced its down-payment minimums to a rock-bottom 3%, which helped send FHA insurance applications 10% above the early 1961 rate. The Government is also getting off the ground with its direct loan program for housing for older people, now has 20,000 applications. And Washington intends to increase its public housing starts from last year's 40,000 to 50,000 this year...
...woodcutter's wish is the golden key that opens one of the gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...that it is "not too optimistic" about the economy. Banking, journal of the American Bankers Association, blamed the lack of boom spirit in the economy on the uncertainties of the November election and on "Khrushchev disease, a sort of exquisitely planned economic and political confusion." From Detroit came the gloomiest reading of all. Writing of the national housing picture in Midwest Housing Markets, President Irving Rose of Advance Mortgage Corp. reported that "housing activity, both new and used, is in decline in most of the cities in our survey, for the third consecutive quarter. We may have to adjust...
Nixon. Nixon's weakness, for strategic reasons, is farm policy. Republican strategists believe that Kennedy's main voting strength lies in the industrial states. Taking the gloomiest view, they are prepared to write off New England and possibly even New York and New Jersey. They concede a close fight in Pennsylvania and Michigan, perhaps even in Nixon's own California. Hence anti-Kennedy insurance requires that Nixon score at least as well in the Democratic South as Ike did against Stevenson in 1956, and fight hard to carry the restive farm states...